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Category Archives: Project Fear
Poll Tax Arrears Threat – Pure Evil
What can you honestly say about the plans of various Scottish councils to chase 25 year old poll tax arrears based on voter registrations from the Scottish independence referendum? Think about what this means? Why would they do this after … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Independence, Politics, Poverty, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged freedom, independent Scotland, politics, poll tax, poverty, welfare
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Short Film: Scotland Votes No – What have we done?
A short film I made featuring the days before and after the Scottish referendum. Maybe No voters can contemplate for a few seconds before switching on BBC again, watching some irrelevant crap and hoping their lives can simply return to their … Continue reading
Posted in Independence, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged independent Scotland, poverty
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Austerity: Keeping Ratings Agencies Happy and Controlling People
Austerity. We heard a lot about that since the Masters of the Universe blew the bloody doors off the world economy in 2008. It’s sold to us minions, us majority of human beings as being the only solution to balancing the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Poverty, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged AAA, austerity, Moodys
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The Rise of the Arsehole in Modern Society (Book Review)
Book Review: The Rise of the Arsehole in Modern Society (Scottish Edition) by Daniel Désespéré. Illustrated. 867pp. D. Watkins Press. €39.99 In what many will come to regard as his tour de force, French academic Professor Daniel Désespéré, charts the rise of idiocy … Continue reading
‘Your nationalism is terrifying’
Better Together folk are a weird bunch. Engaging with them at times can invoke utterly surreal experiences. The vast majority of YES supporters are open to foreigners, are extremely positive over the benefits of an independent Scotland to people at … Continue reading
Posted in Independence, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged bettertogether, empire, freedom, nationalism, scottish independence
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When did the means become more important than the end?
Somehow everything has got into a big bloody mess. Somehow the means became far more important than the end. What is the end? To ask is to meddle with such cliched questions as what is the meaning of life. But … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Project Fear, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
Tagged Blair, Environment, Feynman, NHS, Targets
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BetterTogether Campaign will drive Independence
Do you ever get the feeling that the very bunch tasked with preventing Scottish independence are the very ones who will make it come to fruition? After George Robertson’s embarrassing spoutings yesterday comparing a Yes vote with the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Independence, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged bettertogether, david cameron, george robertson, maria miller
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Cameron Explains Difference Between Scaremongering and Fear
Today David Cameron will be rocketed into Edinburgh to teach the Scots some lessons before the giant bungee cord attached to his back accelerates him safely back to London at speeds close to the speed of sound (but not higher … Continue reading
Posted in Independence, Project Fear
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